Etymologies

Examples

But even when variations do arise independently — Schoenberg and Rufer both hitting on dodecaphony, for example — we attribute it to something "in the air," that it was historically time for such a development.

I could have told them where the beer bar was, what the best chess opening was against the current uni champ or where you could buy a pizza and egg for under a £1, but I couldn't have explained dodecaphony to them or the Caledonian antizygy which I was meant to know.